Testimony of Healing June 14, 1900 Issue

A Severe Case Completely Healed

Margaret S. Howlett

One Wednesday evening a few weeks ago I was making all possible speed toward a prompt attendance at our usual meeting. I had been frying fish and had a quantity of grease in a skillet as I was cooking them as one would doughnuts. My dinner was served and I thought to remove the smoking fat. So I took hold of the handle of the skillet, went down to the cellar, opened the furnace door, and threw the grease in on a hot bed of coals. The flames burst forth and from my waist up I was a mass of fire. Instinctively I placed my hands over my eyes and hair, then stepped up into the coal bin, took my aproan and beat out the rest of the fire. I called out but no one heard me. I then walked up stairs. My daughter came out in the kitchen and said, "Mamma, what is the matter?" I said. "I guess I am burned."

My daughter wished to go for some healer, but I said, "No; I do not need any one. If you wish to please mamma you will go down and eat your dinner, do up the work, and then come back. I want to be alone." There came no doubt, no fear, nothing but an absolute reliance on God. I read a little in our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Then I went to work. This accident occurred about half past six in the evening; by half past nine the same evening all suffering was destroyed and I was asleep.

The next morning one eye was closed so I could see only a little daylight. On the eyelid and just below the eye were large puffed places. From the top of my forehead down to my breast, and from where the hair grows back of my ear to my nose and half the other side of my face was a solid burn. I had inhaled the flames and in my mouth were blisters. My upper lip was so swollen that the end of my nose and lip nearly met. My face on that side was beyond all recognition, terribly disfigured, black, and altogether unsightly. One hand was burned. The greater part of three fingers and nearly to my elbow a solid burn, with the exception of a small strip on the inside of my arm. No applications were used, I simply washed my face with soap and water to remove as much as possible of the grease and coal dust. I was my own patient.

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